From Head-neck-joints instability conditions

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Symptoms linked with instabilities of the head-neck-joint

Patients with an instability at the head-neck-joint can show mainly the following symptoms:

• Strong headaches, especially at the occiput (back of the head), often described as hauling or burning
• attention disorders
• Memory disorders, Weakness of memory
• palsy
• prickling in face and/or extremities
• vertigo
• balance disorders, stumbling, problems coordinating walking, problems of coordination of hands and arms
• visual problems (seeing stars, reduction of the visual field)
• tinnitus
• pain in the following areas: the mandibular articulations, ears, and eyes

• Often the symptoms are accompanied by severe drowsiness / stupor and agitation, vegetative faults, esp. of the cardio-vascular system: unsteady erratic pulse, tachycardia,

• In some cases: vigilance is (extremely) reduced, consciousness disorders (patients tell, they are not really awake, like a hit fly, no more in this world living, in a diffuse world, anything is unreal, I am living like in a dream, ...) - reaching from fatigue over somnolence to comatose states.

• disturbed, changed or reduced self-perception
• breathing disorders, autoregulation of breathing defective
• nightly scaring (waking up, not able to breath, to see, to move, in some cases completely blindness (for a period of time) - this sometimes with great anxiety to die

• Mostly this disorders are not provocable, because patients may not actively reduce the tonus of the neck muscles in such a manner that instability symptoms get visible. Therefore x-raying will be almost without any success.

Neurosurgeon tell that these instabilities, for example loose C1-vertebra, that can move ventral and either compress the basilar artery, the vertebral arteries or irritate the brain steem.

But to prove such instabilities, patients should be narcotised first. Mostly only in total relaxation state these instabilities can be diagnosed.

Unsorted list of symptoms linked to craniocervical subluxations and instability conditions in common

C1-C3/C4

• Headaches and migraine-like pain,
• neck and scalp tension,
• pressure and painbehind eyes,
• blurring of vision,
• dizziness,
• light-headedness,
• fainting,
• facial pain and numbness,
• ringing in ears,
• ear pain,
• jaw pain,
• reoccurring sore throat,
• nasal congestion,
• sinus trouble,
• loss of co-ordination,
• disorientation,
• symptoms of dyslexia,
• generalized malaise,
• childhood fevers,
• vertebral artery insufficiency,
• insomnia (loss of sleep),
• problems with memory,
• depression,
• irritability,
• loss of concentration,
• symptoms of allergies and hay fever.
• weakness in legs
• difficult breathing
• heart arrythmias
• functional heart conditions,
• asthma and allied conditions,
• certain types of arm pain, angina-like pain.
• numbness in legs and feet,
• leg pains,
• bed wetting in children,
• abdominal cramps,
• fatigue, esp. when standing,
• urinary difficulties,
• fatigue and leg weakness,

C4-C7

• Pain and stiffness in the neck, pain in the shoulder, arm and hand,
• tennis elbow-like pain,
• hand and finger swelling,
• numbness and tingling in hands and fingers,
• pain of bursitis in shoulders, wasting of arm

and shoulder muscles, reduced neck/shoulder movement,

• difficulty swallowing,
• nervousness,
• neck tension,
• chest pain,
• cold hands, poor circulation in the arms, twinges of pain which "seem to go away",
• loss of power and grip strength,
• whiplash,
• certain thyroid problems,
• speech difficulties, hormonal balance issues.

T1-T3

Shortness of breath, chest pain and pressure, difficult breathing, pain between shoulder blades, rib pains, heart arrythmias, bronchitis and related chest conditions, respiratory difficulties, reoccurring upper respiratory tract infections, functional heart conditions, asthma and allied conditions (especially in children), certain types of arm pain, angina-like pain.

T4-T9

Pain between shoulder blades, chest pain and pain in ribs, liver and gall bladder trouble, jaundice in infants, stomach trouble, chronic indigestion, dyspepsia, heartburn, abdominal bloating, pancreas malfunction, hypoglycemia, ulcers, gastritis, abdominal pain, trouble digesting certain foods, allergies, lowered resistance acne and other skin disturbances, abnormal blood pressure, sweet tooth cravings.

T10-L1

Urinary problems, constipation, ulcerative intestinal conditions, spastic colon, lazy colon, adrenal trouble, appendicitis-like pain, abdominal bloating and pain, gas pains, frequent sighing, diarrhea, fluid retention, allergies, fatigue, and mid-back pain.